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Drumroll please, or a fanfare will do. Whatever you've got. Because I released the first edition of my newsletter this week. And here's what I wrote to introduce it: Welcome to the first ever Jon Lymon newsletter. As an author and freelance copywriter for more years than you can shake a memoery stick at, I’m going to be sharing tips, tales and travails from nearly 30 years as a professional writer. I also reserve the right to promote my self-published works on here, because if I don’t, who...

I’m going to share how I go about writing a new short novel on here with anyone who’s interested in the process, starting with the very first seeds of an idea which were sown this weekend. I woke up in the early hours of Saturday with an idea in my head that I had to write down in case I fell back asleep and forgot it. I did fall back asleep, but woke up to a page of A4 with just about legible red pen scrawl on it on the table by my bed. Most of the contents of the notes contained the...

Otherwise, the sound of ‘cheers’ ringing in our ears could soon be a distant memory. In my ‘World of The Powers’ dystopian series of books (there are two books at the moment, but I’m working on the third), the youth-led government does not want its subjects to socialise. Socialising gives people a chance to meet and plan and discuss and unite and ask questions. An unpopular government doesn’t want such things, even a socialist government like The Powers. They want people to be...